Re: [Evolution] Keystroke approach to "mark all as read"?

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

Don't forget "Mark Messages as Read" (under the Folder menu in Evo 2.5,
elsewhere in earlier versions IIRC). I suspect Peter was asking for a
keyboard accelerator for this.

poc

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 19:51 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi peter,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 07:23 -0500 schrieb Peter N. Spotts:
> > Is there a keyboard way to mark all messages as read?
>
> all messages in a folder: use "control+a" + "control+k".
> all messages in evolution: set up a "search folder" without any
> criterium, e.g. with "sender | is | " (leave the text field at the end
> empty) and sources="all local folders". now you have a search folder
> containing all your local mails. go to that folder (it's at the bottom
> of your folders pane at the left) and use "control+a" + "control+k".
>
> > If not, is it
> > possible for a user to define a set of keystrokes to do that, much as
> > control-y runs the filters or control-a selects all? If so, how does one
> > go about setting that up?
>
> having root access, you can change/add accelerator keys of existing menu
> items by editing the corresponding xml files.
> for the relevant files, have a look at the xml files in your
> /usr/share/evolution/2.4/ui/ directory (depends on distro style; e.g.
> suse distro uses /opt/gnome/share/evolution/2.4/ui/ instead).
> be careful though, as you can easily break things.
>
> cheers,
> andre
>
> (thanks to guenther for copy&paste, like always ;-)
>
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